几年前，在一次宴会上，我遇到了MichaelGottlieb。宴会的主人在计算机屏幕上正播放着一位当红的图瓦族喉音歌手谐波泛音风格的演唱——这是使居住在旧金山附近的市民如此着迷的一件大事。Gottlieb曾经研究过数学，对物理也很感兴趣。历此我建议他读一读《费恩曼物理学讲义》。大约一年以后，他花了他生命中的六个月时间，从头到尾专心致志地读完了这部讲义。正如Gott-lieb在《费恩曼物理学讲义题解(英文版)》的引言中所述，这样做的结果最终导致了你现在读到的这《费恩曼物理学讲义题解(英文版)》，以及一部新的“权威版”的《费恩曼物理学讲义》。

Introduction

On the Origins of The Feynman

Lectures on Physics

A MEMOIR BY MATTHEW SANDS

1 Prerequisites

 REVIEW LECTURE A

 1-1 Introduction to the review lecture

 1-2 Caltech from the bottom

 1-3 Mathematics for physics

 1-4 Differentiation

 1-5 Integration

 1-6 Vectors

 1-7 Differentiating vectors

 1-8 Line integrals

 1-9 A simple example

 1-10 Triangulation

2 Laws and Intuition

 REVIEW LECTURE B

 2-1 The physical laws

 2-2 The nonrelativistic approximation

 2-3 Motion with forces

 2-4 Forces and their potentials

 2-5 Learning physics by example

 2-6 Understanding physics physically

 2-7 A problem in machine design

 2-8 Earth's escape velocity

 Alternate Solutions

 A Finding the acceleration of the weight using geometry

 B Finding the acceleration of the weight using trigonometry

 C Finding the force on the weight using torque and angular momentum

3 Problems and Solutions

 REVIEW LECTURE C

 3-1 Satellite motion

 3-2 Discovery of the atomic nucleus

 3-3 The fundamental rocket equation

 3-4 A numerical integration

 3-5 Chemical rockets

 3-6 Ion propulsion rockets

 3-7 Photon propulsion rockets

 3-8 An electrostatic proton beam deflector

 3-9 Determining the mass ofthepi meson

4 Dynamical Effects and Their Applications

 4-1 A demonstration gyroscope

 4-2 The directional gyro

 4-3 The artificial horizon

 4-4 A ship-stabilizing gyroscope

 4-5 The gyrocompass

 4-6 Improvements in gyroscopes design and construction

 4-7 Accelerometers

 4-8 A complete navigational system

 4-9 Effects of the earth's rotation

 4-10 The spinning disk

 4-11 Earth's nutation

 4-12 Angular momentum in astronomy

 4-13 Angular momentum in quantum mechanics

 4-14 After the lecture

5 Selected Exercises

 5-1 Conservation of energy, statics

 5-2 Kepler's laws and gravitation

 5-3 Kinematics

 5-4 Newton's laws

 S-S Conservation of momentum

 5-6 Vectors

 5-7 Nonrelativistic two-body collisions in 3 dimenstons

 5-8 Forces

 5-9 Potentials and fields

 5-10 Units and dimensions

 5-11 Relativistic energy and momentum

 5-12 Rotations in two dimensions, the center mass

 5-13 Angular momentum, the moment of inertia

 5-14 Rotation in three dimensions

Answers to Exercises

Photo Credits

Index to The Lectures